Elena was born on June 22, 1992, in Mystic Falls and lived there peacefully for 17 years, with her parents, Miranda and Grayson Gilbert, as well as with her brother, Jeremy. They led a quiet small town life, free of the supernatural.
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (T. aduncus) lives in the waters around India, northern Australia, South China, the Red Sea, and the eastern coast of Africa; the back is dark-grey and the belly is lighter grey or nearly white with grey spots.
Yes, countershading is a type of camouflage found in many marine species. By having a dark back and a light belly, a bottlenose dolphin will blend into the sunlit surface waters as well as the dark ocean depths. On average, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin will be 8.5 feet long and 400-500 pounds. Yes, all mammals have hair at some point in their lives and a dolphin is no exception. A baby dolphin (calf) is born with whiskers on its upper jaw (rostrum) which fall out soon after birth. Very dense body fat called blubber serves as insulation for the dolphin against the cold.